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Caecilia V90v04 1963 ca€cl la Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy VOLUME 90, NO. 4 WINTER, 1963-64 5 Twelfth Annual Liturgical Music Workshop AUGUST 16.28, 1964 BOYS TOWN, NEBRASKA Flor Peeters, Mechelen, Belgium Organ Cornelius Bouman, University of Nijmegen, Holland Liturgy Francis Brunner, Chicago, Illinois Seminars Richard Schuler, College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota History Francis Schmitt, Boys Town Gregorian Chant - Boy Choir Roger Wagner, University of California at Los Angeles Polyphony, Contemporary Music Kathleen Thomerson Organ Inquire Music Department Boys Town, Nebraska CAECILIA Published four times a year, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Second-Class Postage Paid at Omaha, Nebraska Subscription Price-~3.00 per year All articles for publication must be in the hands of the editor, 3558 Cass St., Omaha 31, Nebraska, 30 days before month of publication. Business Manager: Norbert Letter Change of address should be sent to the circulation manager: Paul Sing, 3558 Cass St., Omaha 31, Nebraska PosUnaster: Form 3579 to Caecilia, 3558 Cass St., Omaha 31, Nebr. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Cappella Sistina-Richard Schuler _ 143 The Use of Grtgorian Psalmody with the English Language Robert Wurm ------ 161 The Present Sta1e of Music in Catholic Colleges and Universities Lavern Wagner 166 Review Books 179 Concerts 182 Masses _____ 184 Motets 185 Organ Music 187 Constitution on de Sacred Liturgy - 188 VOLUME 90, N"O. 4 WINTER, 1963 ..64 RONCKABROS.~OMAHA.NEBR. CAECILIA A Quarterly Review devoted to the liturgical music apostolate. Published with ecclesiastical approval by the Society of Saint Caecilia in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Established in 1874 by John B. Singen-Qerger, K.C.S.G., K.C.S.S. (1849-1924). Editor ----------------------------------------------c---- __ Very Rev. Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt CONTRIBUTING EDITORS FrancisA. Brunner, C.Ss.R. Elmer Pfeil Louise Cuyler Richard Schuler David Greenwood Lavern Wagner Paul Koch Roger Wagner Paul Manz Abbot Rembert Weakland, O.S.B. C. Alexander Peloquin James Welch CAECILIA ASSOCIATES Dr. Caspar Koch, Pittsburgh, Pa.· The Hon. Arthur Reilly, Boston, Mass. Sr. Alphonse Marie, C.P.P.S., Eugene Leahy, Notre Dame, Ind. O'Fallon, Mo. Emmanuel Leemans. Boys Town, Alfred Bichsel, Rochester, N.Y.. Nebr. Cornelius Bouman, Nijmegen, Edward Malone, OS.B., Elkhorn, Holland Nebr. Martin Bush, Omaha, Nebr. Dom Gregory Murtay, Downside George Carthage, St. Cloud, Minn. Abbey, England Flor Peeters, Mechden, Belgium Sr. Casimir, O.P., Omaha, Nebr. Rev. Fred Reece, Suart, Ia. Rev. Charles Dreisoerner, Myron Roberts, Liocoln, Nebr. San Antonio, Tex. Sr. Rosalie, O.P., I-:astings, Nebr. Rev. Laurence Feininger, Trento, George Schaefer, Gnaha, Nebr. Italy Dom Ireneo Segarrl, Montserrat, Winifred Flanagan, Omaha, Nebr. Spain Terence Gahagan, London, England Eugene Selhorst, Rochester, N. Y. Rev. Ferdinand Haberl, Regensburg, Frank Szynskie, Beys Town, Nebr. Germany Sr. Theophane, O.S.F., Milwaukee, Anton Heiller, Vienna, Austria Wise. PaulI-Iume, Washington, D.C. Irvin Udulutch, OF.M., Marathon, Ralph ]usko, Cincinnati, O. Wise. Aloysius Knoll, O.F.M. Cap., Omer Westendorf,Cincinnati, O. Herman, Pa. Rev. Russell Woolen, Washington, Ernst C. Krohn, St. Louis, Mo. D.C. Jean Langlais, ,Paris, France John Yonkman, Ft Wayne, Ind. Managing Editor --- --- --- -- -- -- ----- ------- --- ---- --------- --- --------- ---------- __ Norbert T. Letter Library - - --- ------- ---- ---- ---- -- --- ----------------------_- --- --------Ferenc Denes Circulation __ -__ --- ----- __ -_ -- ----------- -- ----------------- --------- -- ------------- ---- Paul Sing Subscription Price: ~3.00; Additional Single Gpy 75¢ Editorial and Business Address: 3558 Cass St., Omaht 31, Nebraska CHAPTER II THE CAPPELLA SISTINA Nearly half of Nanino's life was spent as a member of the Cappella Pontificia. He served the popes from October, 1577, until his death in March, 1607. Being a papal singer was his full,time occupation. If· one investigates the rules of the college of singers, it becomes evident that the duties were many and the obligations very confining for the members. It was indeed a kind of way of life, a vocation for those who undertook to belong to the pope's choir. They were considered to be members of the papal household. Their daily service required that they be in Rome at all times, except when permission was given specifically to go outside the city for very special reasons. For an institution with a history that extends over nearly the entire Christian era and includes within its membership so many of the great musicians of every century, the Cappella Sistina is sur; prisingly very little known.· One reason alleged for this attributes the cappella's escape of the i attention of historians to the fact that all the members of the choir were bound to secrecy.1 All talk about the customs and arrangements of the college was forbidden to be communicated to outsiders.! In reality, a great deal of information about the cappella, especially in the sixteenth century, is contained in the archives of the chapel, all of which today is very accessible. The papal chapel is th~ most ancient and the most famous of all musical eEtablishments,. ecclesiastical .or courtly, throughout Europe. It did, in fact, serve as a model for many others. Its early history, like so many events of the early Christian centuries, is somewhat obscure, but there seems little doubt that a long tradition of training singers for the church existed even before the time of 2 Saint Gregory the Great. • The original name for the group of singers who fU1ctioned in connection with the papal liturgy was schola cantorun, in use at least from the time of Saint Gregory's pontificate (490;604). 3 When the popes moved their residence to Avignon in the fourteenth century, Pope Clement V (1305;1314) organized a ne\# choir there, made up of French singers, to replace the Roman sch~la cantorum which did not journey to France with the pope. Greg:>ry XI (1370;13 78) returned to Rome in 1377 and brought with hin his cappella which he joined with the Roman choir. This ushered in a remarkable period for the papal singers, which lasted through be fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The French influence was doninant in the fifteenth century even after the return from Avignon. Not only the kind of music sung, but the very names 143 for the officials of the choir, show that the old Roman sehola can" torum had been replaced by the new organization. The new choir was known as the Collegio dei cappellani cantori della cappella pontifieia, or in short, the cappella pontifieia. 4 Theprimieerius (the first of the singers whose names were inscribed in wax: primus in cera) became known as the maestro di cappella; and the old music of the Roman curia was replaced by the new music of fourteenth century France.5 Pope. Sixtus IV (1471 -- 1484) built the Sistine chapel in the Vatican palace to be the church for the ordinary pontifical cere" monies. He was following the practice that grew up at Avignon of confining the papal liturgy to a single chapel, thus replacing the former custom of going from church to church (called stationes) as was the ancient Roman practice.6 In 1480, Sixtus re"established the cappella pontifieia as a permanent cantoria reserved for papal func" tions alone, and since most of these ceremonies took place in the Sistine chapel, the term Cappella Sistina as a designation for the papal singers dates from this period. The real golden age of the Cappella Sistina extends from the late fifteenth century into a mid--seventeenth century. The roster of its members reads like a list of that period'ls musical great. Josquin des Pres, Gaspard van Weerbecke, Constanza Festa, Cristoforo Morales, Jacob Arcadelt, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Felice Anerio, Luca Marenzio, and Tomas Ludovisi da Vttoria are only a few of the musicians from all parts of Europe who spent some part of their lives in the papal service. An organization with such a history and with such an inter" national reputation would have to have rules to maintain its stan" dards, examinations to select its members, and statutes to preserve its customs and ancient traditions, as well as to aESure peace and order among its members. Fortunately, for the period of the six" teenth century, a rich collection of documents is rreserved in the Vatican Library about the Cappella Sistina. Papal di~ectives, diaries, registers, financial statements, as well as correspon.dence between singets and officials, make up the evidence of the life and activity of that period.7 Matteo Fornari, in his history of the pontificGl chapel, points totwo papal directives that are of especial importarce to the period of Nanino, since the choir was functioning under trum at that time. 8 One is the Constitution of Pope Paul III, Roma capta,9 and the other is the Bull of Pope Sixtus V, In suprema. 10 144 Issued in 1'54'5, Paul Ill's decree undertook the restoration of the cappella after the devastating sack of Rome in 1527, which left all ecclesiastical life as well as artistic activity in the city nearly at a standstill. It is a most detailed and comprehensive order touch" ing on each phase of the singer's obligation, but particularly spelling out the various financial arrangements that could become the occa" sian .for disputes and misunderstandings. The document forms a marvelous instrument for operating such a close g,roup. as the singers were. It leaves no doubt about what is expected of each, and the remuneration for their services together with the fines for failures toward that service are all carefully listed.11 Before a candidate was admitted into the cappella, an exam" ination into his life and morals was made. A further exam into his musical skills followed and included five areas of questioning: 1) Hashe a good and perfect voice? 2) Can he sing figured music well? 3) Can he sing counterpoint sufficiently? 4) Can he sing plain chant? 5) Can he read well?12 A secret meeting of the maestro di cappella and the older singers who were interrogated singly about the candidates settled the matter of his acceptance or rejection.
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